Chancellor keeps off-trade duty in line with RPI while increasing Draught Relief
Dr Aveek Bhattacharya – Social Market Foundation
On this month's podcast we spoke to Dr Aveek Bhattacharya, Research Director at the Social Market Foundation, about the decisions taken on alcohol duty in Labour's first Budget in 14 years. We discussed the positives and negatives of the decisions, whether Labour could and should have been more radical, how duty should be structured to cover the cost of alcohol harm, and whether public health groups should have welcomed the decision.